Can more graduated seniors do "actual results" threads?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I just was accepted ED2 at Carleton, so am withdrawing my other apps. Here are my stats though.

Accepted: Carleton (ED2), Chapman (EA with 23,000/year scholarship), Fullerton (with an invitation to apply for full ride, which I didn’t end up applying for)

*White female
*Los Angeles suburbs
*One of the best public schools in CA

GPA: 3.81 UW, 4.07
ACT: 30 (Superscored - 31).
SAT: 2000 (600 M/730 W/670 CR)
SATIIs: US History - 640; Literature - 760
APs: Junior year - APUSH, 4. Currently (senior) taking three - Stat, Lit, EnviSci.

ECs:
Activities:
-6 years of musical theatre acting
-Eight awards for acting and directing at a So. Cal theatre festival
-4 years, my school’s Drama Club; historian one year (leadership)
-Part-time jobs junior and senior year: Junior year, retail (20 hrs per week for six months); summer before junior year, copy edited a website (8 hours/total); senior year, waitress (8 hours a week)

Community Service:
-Crew for three middle school musicals (160 hours)
-Web manager, Arkonline.com (150 hours)
-Elementary school haunted house for two years (14 hours)
-Fundraiser/team member for Relay for Life (12 hours)

Essay: My very intelligent English teacher, who I really trust, called it a “winner.” Was about my younger brother, who has Asperger’s, and his influence on me.

Recs: I never read them, but sent two academic teachers, my counselor, and my drama teacher (because I sent an arts supplement). All should have been good to excellent…

I interviewed, visited campus, and expressed a LOT of interest in attending Carleton. Now I’m going to be! :slight_smile:

A lot of people on here thought I had not much of a chance, but apparently, well, I did.

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Applied for class of 2012:

Accepted: San Francisco State, UC Merced.
Rejected: UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz.
Attending: Community College, intent to transfer to LA or SD

GPA: 3.17 UW/3.3 W
SAT: 760 M, 700 CR, 690 W
SAT II: 790 US History, 740 Math II (took them a month after the UC deadline)
ECs: About 50 community service hours and a leadership role at my church.
Essays: 1 good one, 1 written at the last minute.

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All I can say is, I’m waiting for a miracle.

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Attend: Carleton College (and I love it, just to put that out there! Good for you, hollylove.)
Accepted: Carleton, Amherst, Pomona, Haverford, Whitman, Macalester
Waitlisted: Swarthmore, Tufts, Brown
Rejected: Harvard

Gender: Female
Race: White

Type of school: Private
Overall GPA (UW): 3.85
School doesn’t rank

SAT I
M 720
W 780
V 760
2260 overall

SAT II
Literature 800
Math IIC 700
French 700

Course load: very rigorous, 7 APs total in HS, 2 courses through University of Minnesota (CIS)

AP scores (from before senior year)
Calculus AB 5
French Language 4
European History 5
English 5

EC:
Job as file room clerk at health care clinic
Varsity captain of fencing
Costume crew head for 2 years, won “Most Helpful Crew Member”
Ultimate Frisbee captain for 2 years
Member of premiere teen percussion ensemble in Minneapolis
have played percussion since 5th grade

Essays: They were good, I recall :slight_smile:
Recommendations: Definitely good.

Other/Awards
National Merit Semifinalist
Homesday in Tours, France for a month

1125

Yes, I agree with sak09, can you explain yourself?

1126

Nice thread.

1127

The fact that skx46 got waitlisted at Boston makes me feel nervous.

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But this is still entertaining.

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In at UVA, American, W&M, GWU

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That was my chance thread back in the day, but to sum up:

Public high school in virginia (FCPS)
Unweighted GPA: 3.5
Weighted: 3.7

Senior Courses:
AP Calculus BC
AP Lit
AP Gov
AP Music Theory
Anatomy and Physiology
Latin IV
Journalism 5

SATs: M - 700, CR - 760, W - 780 = 1460/2240
SAT Subject Tests: US History - 740, Literature - 780, Latin - 700, Chem - 720

AP Exams:
World History - 3 (I know, I know)
AP Chemistry - 4
AP Psychology - 5
AP US - 5
AP Lang - 5

ECs: Key Club Vice President, Editor in Chief of my school paper, Quizbowl (It’s academic) Captain (and played on the TV show)

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Accepted- Stanford, Georgetown, Boston College, UNC, Syracuse, Buffalo, Binghamton, Penn State

Rejected- Harvard, Yale, UCBerkeley

Male
Buffalo,NY
Competitive Public school
African-American

GPA: 4.13
SAT: 1980 SatII- Lit 740 UShis 660 MathI 680-
ACT:29
APs- three 4’s, one 3

EC’s- Varsity and Club Soccer, Varsity Track, Class VP, Publishable Chemistry Research

Rec’s- VERY good
Essays- Solid

I started going to CC about a year ago and couldnt wait until I could post my results. I learned that there is no point in worrying/stressing about this process because it won’t change a thing. Anything is possible in the game of admissions. Bye bye CC, good luck to 2010…DEUCES.

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Accepted: Smith, Bryn Mawr, Boston University, University of Rochester (legacy), Oberlin (w/John F. Oberlin scholarship), American (w/$20,000 Dean’s scholarship), McGill, SUNY New Paltz
Waitlisted: Wellesley, Barnard, UChicago
Rejected: Vassar

Gender: female
Ethnicity: white
Location: New York
School Type: tiny public, really competitive, on the USNWR top 100

Prospective Major:
Art History or English/Creative Writing, possibly something to do with Statistics

GPA: 91.81/98.0 UW and counting some eighth-grade classes

SAT I:
First time–2000 (660 CR/670 M/670 W, 8 essay)
Second time–2150 (750 CR/670 M/710 W, 10 essay); it pays not to nap, apparently.
…but I didn’t send either of those in.
ACT: 33 composite (35 E/32 M/35 R/31 S/8 W)

Classes: All honors/AP unless unavailable. Have taken AP Art History (5), Euro (4), Lang (4), and US (4); will be taking both Economics APs this year, plus Lit, Stat, Spanish, and Psych. I was enrolled in AP Bio, but ended up dropping towards the end of the first semester due to extenuating circumstances.

Extracurriculars: My main EC was the literary magazine, of which I am now editor, but I also mentioned my three-year membership in art club and an attempt at running track (it was a gigantic fail) as some significant things. I also have almost 100 hours of volunteerwork and a few French awards, and was one of those “National Merit commended” types.

Essay/Rec: My Common App essay was about the Clash and that gained me some fans; I got likely letters from both Bryn Mawr and Oberlin. :slight_smile: I can’t imagine my teacher recs were anything but good.

I’m pretty pleased. Right now it’s between Oberlin, Smith, and Bryn Mawr, though I’m still holding out some hope that I’ll be admitted to Barnard or Wellesley. Not much for Chicago though… ha.

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Accepted and attending: MIT.
Accepted: Brandeis, UVa.
Deferred SCEA and rejected: Yale.
Waitlisted: Princeton, Stanford.

Objective: [ul]

[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 800CR-790M-780W (2370)
[</em>] SAT II: 800’s on physics, math II-C, US history, 780’s on bio, chem
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): about 3.97
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1 (tie), two in EA round
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5’s on US History, Computer Science A, Microeconomics (self-study), Macroeconomics (self-study)
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Euro (A), AP English Lit (A), AP Spanish (A-), AP US Gov (A), AP Stats (A+), AP Physics C (A+). BC Calc through CTY over summer (A).
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Nothing major, but NJ Science League: 1st in area every year. Bergen County Math League: 1st in group. Academic Decathlon: First and second in region, awards in almost everything. National Merit winner, AP Scholar with Honor. [/ul]
[/li]

Subjective: [ul]

[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Cross-country (with award given to one senior a year), winter track, spring track, GSA (treasurer), SADD (president), NHS, Earth club, politics club, quiz bowl. Bible quizzing team - significant time commitment. Some extracurricular involvement in music.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Tutoring.
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Local library, picking up recyclables, community service club.
[</em>] Summer Activities: Summer school tennis, cross-country camp, calculus BC through CTY.
[<em>] Essays: Good?
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Don’t know about one. Other very positive, “best student ever taught,” etc. Second rec used as MIT primary and Yale supplemental: awesome.
[li] Counselor Rec: Don’t know. [/ul]
[/li]

Other [ul]

[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes.
[</em>] Intended Major: EA: Undecided. RD: Physics.
[<em>] State: NJ
[</em>] School Type: Good public.
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Female
[*] Income Bracket: ~100k, but significant costs due to sister’s illness. My mother sent a letter about that. [/ul]

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I’m still in shock…

Accepted: University Of South Florida, The College Of New Jersey, University Of Chicago, Johns Hopkins University, Cornell University, Columbia University, Yale University
Waitlisted: none
Rejected: none

Black female, just turned permanent resident.

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I’ve wanted to be able to post “actual results” for so long :).

Will be attending(pending two waitlists): Gettysburg College

Accepted!: American U, Tulane, Union College, SUNY New Paltz, SUNY Binghamton, Gettysburg, Florida State, University of Florida, University of Vermont.

Waitlisted: Lafayette College(not stay on), University of Richmond (will stay on), Johns Hopkins University(amazed, shocked, awed, will stay on!)

Rejected:Brown

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Stats:
ACT:27
GPA: 3.37 UW
11 APs

Leadership:
VP on NEHS
Treasurer of Young Democrats and Debate
Squad Leader in debate
President and co-founder of history club

Great essays/recs and applied for aid; got some great scholarships and I’m pretty sure i’ll be studying history at Gettysburg College in the fall!

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I made my first chance thread 9 months ago, and I always wanted to come and post actual results on this thread. For me, it’s like leaving a part of my life and moving on to the next. It’s like … graduating from high school! (like that was a given)

Anywho, without further ado: (no drumroll … ominous and eerie Halloween-type music plays)

Attending: Univ of Michigan

Accepted: Univ of Michigan, Michigan State (with $12,000 scholarship over 4 years or something like that)

Waitlisted: Univ of Chicago

Rejected: MIT, Brown, Stanford

Time spent on essays: ~4 months (waste of time I tell you) + checked by teachers and fellow CCers

Basic stats
GPA: UW 3.85 with 9 total APs
ACT: 34
SAT: 2260
ECs: Relatively weak with a few leaderships here and there (search for my posts for extra details) - Orchestra Section Leader, NHS Webmaster, Latin Club Secretary
Income bracket:: Upper, 250k+
Extra stats: AMC 12 105, AIME qualifier, AIME 3, USNCO Regional Honorable Mention

Colleges tell you to be “yourself.” This is a misleading statement. If you want to get into a top school, you need to know where you’re going the moment you step into high school as a freshman. What do you want to do with your free time? Extracurriculars? Fill your life to the brim with extracurriculars, especially if your school offers alot, because only then will ADCOMs accept the fact that you’ve taken a full advantage of what your school has to offer. You need to have a clear-cut direction. I didn’t have this.

Now I hope to correct my mistakes. I will work myself to the death in college. I mean it. I will seize every opportunity I see. No parties or anything like that. In fact, “sleep” will no longer be a word in my dictionary.

(OK I’m overemphasizing. I’m happy that I’ll be going to Michigan. I’ll be close to family. :slight_smile: )

**Thanks to the CC community for helping me out, even though things did not go so well. To give back, I’ll be back on CC over the summer to help out '14ers and beyond. I want people to know that there are CCers who care about your success. It’s my way of returning the favor. **

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For class of 2013-all BUSINESS schools (which for those of you who don’t know, are by far the most competitive…)

Accepted: Boston College, Babson, Bentley, SUNY Geneseo, UCONN, St.Johns (full tuition, honors college ect…)
Waitlisted:Villanova, Carnegie Mellon
Rejected:None

Basic stats
GPA (weighted): 96/100
SAT:1380/2040
RANK:10/323
STATUS/RACE: lower-middle class, white american.

ECs/honors:
-Varsity Soccer captain , first team all county, AGR honorable mention, Senior-all star game selection, team MVP
-Premier club soccer team for 8 years, traveled across the nation competing at the highest level.
-Varsity Track and field for 4 years
-DECA 3-time international finalist for Virtual Business Management.
-DECA Vice-president (leadership team for all of high-school)
-Future business leaders of America state champion (3 times)
-NHS (really sets me apart eh? lol)
-Elmira College Key Award
-School wide student of the month (December 07’)
-President of fishing club
-AP Scholar with honor

Essay: Original, simple, and solid. Did not try to impress them with fancy words and such. My advice: make it personal and don’t overdo it.

Rec’s: Both amazing. Two teachers that were in love with me and bragged about being one of the best business students they have ever had.

Hope this helps and good luck to all getting into their colleges!

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Accepted: Yale SCEA, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, USC, UCLA & Berkeley (OOS)
Waitlisted: None
Rejected: None

Most likely attending: Yale

Objective:

<ul>
<li>SAT I (breakdown): 730 CR, 720 M, 780 W</li>
<li>SAT II: Literature (750); Biology-M (740); World History (760)</li>
<li>Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.95</li>
<li>Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 29/316</li>
<li>AP (place score in parenthesis): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,4 (two of my 5’s were self-studied)</li>
<li>Senior Year Course Load: Differential Equations, AP Calc BC, AP Lit, Musical Theatre, Wind Ensemble, Independent Research, AP Music Theory</li>
<li>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Semi, National Achievement Semi, National AP Scholar, Maryland Distinguished Scholar</li>
</ul>

Subjective:

<ul>
<li>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): JSA (Founder/President - Winners of National Chapter of the Month), FBLA State Officer, Young Democrats Club (Founder/President), Piano (I take lessons and do chamber music at a really prestigious conservatory), Band (flute and piano), Drama!!!, Baltimore Cappies Critics Team, School Chamber Music Society, A couple honors societies, County-Wide Student Government (Secretary)</li>
<li>Job/Work Experience: Year-long internship in the FCC regulatory dept. of a REALLY big satellite firm in DC, Office Assistant at my dad’s office, Tutoring Service (Founder/President)</li>
<li>Volunteer/Community service: Appointed by County Executive to the Environmental Sustainability Board, Student Member of 2 other commissions confirmed by the County Council, Member of a lovely troupe of traveling kids that give presentations to parents on how they can better communicate with their teens (Elected Secretary), Teen Advisory Committee for my community, Participated in a fairly prestigious community service organization sponsored by my county, LOTS OF WORK GETTING KIDS INVOLVED IN GOVERNMENT!</li>
<li>Summer Activities: Summer@Brown, Prestigious Music Camp (for piano)</li>
<li>Essays: I’m a writer through and through</li>
<li>Teacher Recommendation: N/A</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: He said it was the best he’s ever written</li>
<li>Additional Rec: N/A</li>
<li>Interview: Lovely</li>
</ul>

Other

<ul>
<li>Applied for Financial Aid?: hmmm… I forget</li>
<li>Intended Major: English</li>
<li>State (if domestic applicant): Maryland</li>
<li>Country (if international applicant): hmmm</li>
<li>School Type: Competitive Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Black</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>Income Bracket: Middle Class!</li>
<li>Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM</li>
</ul>

Reflection

<ul>
<li>Strengths: Race, EXTREMELY INVOLVED (I do a bit more than I listed, but I feel like I’ve given you an accurate reflection with what I’ve provided), neat accomplishments!</li>
<li>Weaknesses: Teacher recs, test scores</li>
<li>Why you think you were accepted: i mean… what do you want from me?</li>
</ul>

General Comments: HOORAH!

I’m a legacy at yale and am happy to continue the tradition :slight_smile:

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Accepted: UCB (going to attend), UCLA, UCSB (Regents), UCI, UCSD (Regents), USC (full tuition)
Rejected: None (only because I didn’t apply to Stanford)

Objective:

*SAT I: 2320- 800 M, 790 W, 730 CR
*SAT II: 800s in Chem, Math 2, and US History
*GPA (UW/W/UC): 3.8/4.2/4.15
*Rank: School does not rank.
*AP: Euro (3), Chem (5), US History (5)
*Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Physics C, AP Microeconomics, AP English, Model UN, Spanish

Subjective:

*Extracurriculars: Community Leadership program junior year, Math Club, After school aerospace engineering class junior year, Model UN, Finance guy for school newspaper
*Job/Work Experience: Private tutor for 4 honors chemistry students at my school
*Volunteer/Community Service: Interact Club
*Summer Activities: National Student Leadership Conference on Engineering
*Essays: Did them at the last minute. Not bad but not great.
*Teacher Recommendation: From my chem teacher. Probably pretty good

Other:

*Intended Major: Electrical Engineering
*Location: SoCal
*School Type: Good public
*Ethnicity: White
*Gender: Male
*Income Bracket: Upper-Middle Class

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Accepted: Columbia (SEAS), Swarthmore, Tufts, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, UConn (honors w/ $7200/year + ~$2000 grant), Boston University
Waitlisted: Cornell (Engineering), Brown
Rejected: Olin College, Harvard

Will probably attend Columbia.

Objective:

*SAT I: 2280- 710 M, 770 W, 800 CR
*SAT II: German: 800, Math II: 750, US History: 750, Physics: 730
*GPA (W): 4.130 (school doesn’t weight heavily, don’t know UW, but probably a little bit below 4.0 uw, and only because of ~3.8 freshman year, had above a 4.0 sophomore and junior year.)
*Rank: 1/110
*AP: AB Calc (5), BC Calc (5), US History (4)
*Senior Year Course Load: AP Spanish Language, AP Physics C: Mechanics, AP Statistics, AP English Literature and Composition, World Wars (S1)/Asian Studies Honors(S2)
Subjective:

*Extracurriculars:
Habitat for Humanity (Club President) (11,12) (100+ hrs upon graduation),Tutoring Elementary School Kids (9,10,11,12) (50-100 hrs upon graduation, didn’t log hrs.), Peer Tutoring (10,11,12), Journalism/Writing/School Paper (9,10,11,12), Soccer (9,10,11,12)/Basketball (9,10, Captain, 11,12) (non-varsity, take that all you all-state captains!), Math League/American Math Competition Club (Club President) (9,10,11,12), Investment Club (10,11,12) (Club Officer), Stock Market Club (10,11,12), Bike Shop Volunteer (11,12), Special Olympics Soccer Helper (11), Model U.N. (12).
*Job/Work Experience: Engineering Internship at my dad’s company for 40 hrs/week over summer.
*Summer Activities: Visiting family in Germany, driver’s ed, playin soccer, and internship
*Essays: Did them at the last minute. Prolly sucked.
*Teacher Recommendation: Didn’t read, but probably I was the best thing since Jesus.

Other:

*Intended Major: Mechanical Engineering
*Location: Repping the CT
*School Type: New England Prep School
*Ethnicity: White
*Gender: Male
*Income Bracket: Upper Class (no aid.)

Moral: Shoot high. If you don’t get rejected anywhere, you didn’t shoot high enough.

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In at Columbia ED.

African-American Male

Objective Stats:
GPA
-3.6 UW, academic courses only (upward trend = 3.78 Jr. Year)
-3.97 W

Rank
-9\95

SAT I
-2250 Combined
-1450 CR\M
-780 CR
-670 M
-800 W

SAT II
-800 U.S. History
-790 Literature
-740 Biology M

APs
-EngLit-5 (Self-Studied)
-EngLang-5
-APUSH-5
-Bio-5

Other Stuff
-Small Private Christian School (~100 kids per class)
-Sends about 3-4 kids to top schools every year
-Literally the most difficult courseload in my school’s 10 year history

ECs\Awards
Theater
-Three Shows a Year (huge time commitment: 8-10hrs\wk, 20+ wks\year)
-International Thespian Society Individual Event Competition
-Two-time National Qualifier
-African-American Read-In (featured role on one of the largest stages in my city)
-Officer in my school’s theater troupe
-Co-writing and Co-directing the student-run revue show this upcoming spring.

TAPPS Academic Competition (like UIL, but private schools)
-Regional winner (Literary Criticism)
-State 3rd Place (Literary Criticism)
-Two time state qualifier (Ready Writing)

Future Problem Solving (writing\research competition)
-Two-time state qualifier
-2nd Place at State Scenario Writing competition

Band
-Concert Band 3yrs
-Pep Band 4yrs

Poetry
-Entered Kenyon and Princeton writing competitions
-Including Short Sample as Supp. Materials

National Spanish Exam
-Silver Medal Winner (92nd percentile)
-Gold Medal Winner (97th percentile)

Work Experience:
-Two summer-long internships, one in the TV Dept. of a local “megachurch,” one at my father’s company
-Wrote ad campaign for one of their conferences
-Wrote marketing materials for father’s A\V company
-Miscellaneous writing (short commercials, church announcements, reports, client emails, etc.)
-Miscellaneous Freelance Video (positions include production manager, live shoot director, spotlight operator)
-Submitting a reel of my work

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